Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if I incur a verbal warning for stepping out of the area , I do n't then expect to receive a half-point penalty for a slight contravention of another rule . |
| 2 | She washed her face a second time after stepping out of the shower and left the bathroom confident that no trace of her weeping was visible . |
| 3 | She was found dead hours after walking out of the unit in a suicidal state after her family had been told it was secure . |
| 4 | Mr Yeltsin , who went to ground after storming out of the Congress of People 's Deputies on Friday , re-emerged on Tuesday with an appeal to the world 's richest nations for extra aid before it was too late . |
| 5 | Bowen staged an escape while being brought to court in December last year , Mark Williams is in hospital after becoming ill during the trial and Bush is still being sought after breaking out of the court last week with four of the other accused . |
| 6 | ‘ After getting out of the cab , I looked round and saw what looked like a car upside down on fire . |
| 7 | After getting out of the car she bent over and pushed open the gate , then closed it behind her , walked up the short path and rang the doorbell . |
| 8 | It was noted that Stefan did not play with his toys for more than a few seconds before leaving them , so she was advised to reward him for playing longer ( so that he would have less time for wandering out of the house ) . |
| 9 | Having to hold the button down all the time made it a bit awkward for looking out of the side window , but by craning her neck she could just manage to see the hole to the rear of the craft . |
| 10 | He successfully accomplished his design by the simple expedient of walking out of the gaol disguised as a workman while his doctor pretended that he was ill and confined to bed . |
| 11 | The fact is that as a consequence of climbing out of the depression in the early 1980s , of remodelling our business processes , and of becoming a serious entrant into the high tech race , the work force profile has changed and will continue to change . |
| 12 | From his experience with the Navy 's Coastal Airships on convoy escort and anti U-boat patrols , Binding was accustomed to the perilous practice of climbing out of the gondola cockpit high above the North Sea to service the airship 's two eight-cylinder 150 hp Sunbeam engines . |
| 13 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps if she admitted she was scared of going out of the room ? |
| 15 | Another way of getting out of the recession is by increasing public expenditure . |
| 16 | Destabilisation of the German economy could kill off Europe 's hope of getting out of the recession . |
| 17 | In their generosity , or relief of getting out of the kitchen , they ply me with bag loads of organic vegetables . |
| 18 | If the fish did attack and he missed with his spear , Trent knew that his chances of getting out of the water in one piece were nil . |
| 19 | Gregory was seriously thinking of getting out of the music business at the time . |
| 20 | If they did know and blocked the main rides the verderers ' chances of getting out of the forest were small . |
| 21 | Hopefully , it 'll give some severely disabled people a means of getting out of the bath without having to rely on another person . ’ |
| 22 | At the time , the teenaged Bowie and Roxy Music fan dreamt of getting out of the rain and opening his own record shop . |
| 23 | He saw her look from him to the key , judging the distance , assessing the possibility of getting out of the room alive , and smiled inwardly . |
| 24 | What he did n't say , until he published his autobiography last year , was that he was also a high school drop-out who 'd been a heroin addict , a splendid example of rising out of the rot of the inner city . |
| 25 | The homework for these occasions offered the group two ways of breaking out of the bulimia cycle : |
| 26 | The garrison conjectured that the sepoys ' powder had been soaked by the downpour … there was even wild talk of breaking out of the enclave and escaping to safety . |
| 27 | Indeed , political activity at a variety of levels showed signs of breaking out of the loyalist versus republican deadlock . |
| 28 | If you actually read the code letters as they occur along the chromosome ( i.e. if you do the equivalent of breaking out of the discipline of the ‘ operating system ’ ) you find fragments of ‘ sense ’ , called exons , separated by portions of ‘ nonsense ’ called introns . |
| 29 | Paying attention to real readers is certainly one productive way of breaking out of the view that the text alone determines audience response , but it is not without its difficulties . |
| 30 | As a result he early on developed the habit of staying out of the house as much as possible . |